Originally Posted by
contrails
No, we don't, and the flight crew walks up to the gate in the morning with 4-5 hours of sleep in that case. There are all the passengers, ready to go. Half of them were already asleep when the flight crew was on final approach the night before.
The FAA does not care about safety as long as this stuff goes on.
It's interesting you mentioned that about the FAA because truckers seem to have a simular problem from the FHWSA (Federal Highway Safety Alliance).
With our hours of service regs, you'd think we get all kinds of rest. But companies set up ridiculous appointment times. Everyone knows we cheat in our log books. It's usually not out of greed, but as a means of trying to make our deliveries ontime. Sure, we can delay our deliveries in order to remain FHWSA compliant. But then we may find ourselves waiting up to a week for the next delivery appointment to be scheduled.
At least we've got one thing in common. The FAA doesn't care about flight safety while the FHWSA nor the DOT cares about highway safety.